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Thank you for the feedback and advice Saijo....greatly appreciated.
We will be able to redirect to category pages...just need to set them up.

Thank you again.  Best - Rich

Hello Moz Community,

We recently moved our blog from its own domain to a directory on our website.  We do not plan on moving over all the old blog posts because a majority most of them are based on events or time-sensitive information that has passed.

We need advice on what to do with all of the old blog URL's?  Should we just 301 all of them to the new blog directory on our website  (www.domain.com/blog)?  Should we take the time to move over all the old blog content and put the appropriate 301's in place?  Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.
Best,
Rich

Perfect...Thanks for all the help and feedback Mike!

Thanks so much for the resource and feedback Mike...I have not looked into URL rewriting.  I'll forward this on to our developer.

With the URL rewrites and 301 redirects, I wonder if there are any long-term negative implications for SEO as we will be building a large library of posts.  Would it be better to leave /post/ in place without the URL rewrites and 301's?  Trying to weigh the positives and negatives of one over the other.

This is a nice solution to our dilemma and we thank you

Hello SEOmoz Community,

We are going to start a blog on our website and have a slight dilemma.  Our site is a .Net site and the blog platform we've chosen (BlogEngine) only allows us to use the following url structure: www.domain.com/blog/post/post-name.  We've looked at other .Net blog software and this one meets all of our needs except for the ideal URL Structure.

We would like to remove the /post/ directory; however have not technically found a way to do it.  We wanted to get some opinions on whether or not we should just start with this URL structure and not worry about the extra directory, or work to find another solution that eliminates this extra directory.  Ideally we want to keep the posts as close to the root as possible for link juice distribution, and the extra directory could get in the way.

Also, if anyone has any advice on a more flexible .Net blog platform, suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

We thank you so much in advance for your time and help.

Thanks so much for the resource and feedback Mike...I have not looked into URL rewriting.  I'll forward this on to our developer.

With the URL rewrites and 301 redirects, I wonder if there are any long-term negative implications for SEO as we will be building a large library of posts.  Would it be better to leave /post/ in place without the URL rewrites and 301's?  Trying to weigh the positives and negatives of one over the other.

This is a nice solution to our dilemma and we thank you